Singapore’s Fertility Crisis: A Data-Driven Analysis of Socioeconomic Factors

AAI1001 Team 7 Data Visualisation Project

1 Executive Summary

Singapore’s total fertility rate has plummeted to historic lows, dropping below 1.0 for the first time in 2023. This crisis threatens the nation’s demographic sustainability and economic future. Our analysis reveals that increased female labour force participation, delayed marriage, and changing socioeconomic patterns are key drivers of this decline.

Key Findings:

• Fertility rate declined by 41% from 1990 to 2020

• Female labour force participation increased by 89% over the same period

• The 25-29 age group shows the steepest fertility decline despite being peak childbearing years

• Strong negative correlation (-0.87) between labour force participation and fertility rates

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2 Introduction

2.1 Background & Significance

Singapore faces a demographic crisis with one of the world’s lowest fertility rates. Understanding the underlying socioeconomic factors is crucial for policy formulation and national planning. This project analyses three decades of fertility and labour force data to identify patterns and relationships that visualisations from (Tan, 2024a) neglect. Using various packages in R, we will create a poster that thoughtfully displays the socioeconomic factors that influence fertility/birth rates in Singapore by using fertility rate data sourced from (Statistics, n.d.) as well as labour participation and marital status data from (Data.gov.sg, n.d.a) and (Data.gov.sg, n.d.b).

Disclaimer: To note that data for 1995, 2000 and 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the Population Census 2000, General Household Surveys 1995 and 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.

2.2 Research Questions

1. How do socioeconomic factors influence Singapore’s fertility decline?
2. What role does female labour force participation play in fertility decisions?
3. Which age groups and marital statuses are most affected?
4. Can we identify critical inflection points in the fertility decline?

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3 Critical Analysis of Original Visualisation

3.1 Original Visualisation

Total fertility rate from 2019 to 2023

Source: Straits Times: Singapore’s total fertility rate hits record low in 2023

3.2 Strengths & Weaknesses Analysis

Table 1: Comprehensive Analysis of Original Visualisation vs Our Improvements

Strengths	Weaknesses	Our Improvements
Uses official SingStat data	No data validation shown	Comprehensive data validation & outlier analysis
Clear recent trend shown	Limited to 2019-2023 only	Extended analysis: 1990-2022 (32 years)
Headline-grabbing impact	Missing socioeconomic factors	Integrated labour force & marital status data
Clean, professional format	Static visualisation	Fully interactive dashboard
Focuses on key metric	No age-specific breakdown	Age-specific fertility rates by group
Accessible to general public	Lacks analytical depth	Multi-layered analytical approach

The original visualisations focus on Singapore’s total fertility rate (TFR) from 2019 to 2023, but fail to explore the socioeconomic factors driving the decline. Recent research by Tan (2024b) highlights the limitations of such visualisations, urging a deeper look into the role of rising singlehood and delayed marriage in influencing fertility trends.

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4 Data Sources & Methodology

Table 2: Data Sources Overview

Dataset	Source	Time Period	Variables	Records
Fertility Rates	SingStat	1960-2024	Age-specific fertility rates, Total fertility rate	17 variables wide format
Labour Force (Working)	data.gov.sg	1991-2022	Female labour force by age & marital status	5 columns long format
Labour Force (Not Working)	data.gov.sg	1991-2022	Females outside labour force by age & marital status	5 columns long format

4.1 Data Engineering Pipeline

# Load datasets with proper error handling
fertility <- read_csv(
  "datasets/ResidentFertilityRate.csv",
  skip = 9,
  n_max = 17,
  show_col_types = FALSE
)

work <- read_csv("datasets/ResidentLabourForceAged15YearsandOverbyMaritalStatusAgeandSex.csv", 
                 show_col_types = FALSE)

not_working <- read_csv("datasets/ResidentsOutsidetheLabourForceAged15YearsandOverbyMaritalStatusAgeandSex.csv", 
                       show_col_types = FALSE)

cat("✓ Data loaded successfully\n")

✓ Data loaded successfully

cat("Fertility data shape:", dim(fertility), "\n")

Fertility data shape: 17 66 

cat("Labour force data shape:", dim(work), "\n")

Labour force data shape: 2088 5 

cat("Outside labour force data shape:", dim(not_working), "\n")

Outside labour force data shape: 2088 5 

4.2 Data Cleaning & Transformation

The following steps will be taken to clean and reshape “fertility”:

• “fertility” tibble contains “na” strings which are not actually NA values, these points will need to be converted to NA values

• fertility rate data from SingStat is in wide format with years as the columns, we will pivot long for year-wise plots

• fertility rate data goes up till 2024, whereas the labour force data only goes up till 2022, we will filter the fertility rate data to only include years after 1990 and up till 2022

• standardise age banding of fertility rate dataset to be consistent with labour force data. For example, “15-19” instead of “15 - 19 Years (Per Thousand Females)’ and also keep Total Fertility Rate data (aggregated across all age bands)

• filtered to include age specific fertility rates and the total fertility rate by year

• introduce Unit of Measurement (uom) column to indicate scaling for Total Fertility Rates and age banded fertility rates

The following steps will be taken to clean and reshape “not_working”:

• standardise column names to the 7 (15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49) age bands to be consistent with fertility and remove extra bandings

• for labour datasets, divide labour_force values by 1000 to align with count (in thousands) y-axis variable

• some outside_labour_force values are “-” which are not valid numerics, convert these to NA

• rename age column to age_band to match fertility

• aggregate age bands to introduce “All” to represent population outside labour force by year and marital status only, this is so that we can introduce interactivity with Total Fertility Rate and fertility rates across age bands

“work” tibble is cleaned in a similar way to “not_working”.

# Enhanced fertility data cleaning
fertility_clean <- fertility |>
  clean_names() |>
  rename(measure = data_series) |>
  mutate(across(-measure, as.character)) |>
  pivot_longer(
    cols = -measure,
    names_to = "year",
    values_to = "value"
  ) |>
  mutate(
    year = as.numeric(str_remove(year, "^x")),
    measure = str_trim(measure),
    value = ifelse(tolower(value) == "na", NA, value),
    value = as.numeric(value)
  ) |>
  mutate(
    age_band = case_when(
      measure == "Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Per Female)" ~ "All",
      str_detect(measure, "15 - 19") ~ "15-19",
      str_detect(measure, "20 - 24") ~ "20-24",
      str_detect(measure, "25 - 29") ~ "25-29",
      str_detect(measure, "30 - 34") ~ "30-34",
      str_detect(measure, "35 - 39") ~ "35-39",
      str_detect(measure, "40 - 44") ~ "40-44",
      str_detect(measure, "45 - 49") ~ "45-49",
      TRUE ~ NA_character_
    )
  ) |>
  filter(!is.na(age_band)) |>
  mutate(
    uom = case_when(
      age_band == "All" ~ "per female",
      TRUE ~ "per thousand females"
    )
  ) |>
  filter(year >= 1990 & year <= 2020) |>
  select(year, age_band, fertility_rate = value, uom)

# Enhanced labour force data cleaning
clean_labour_data <- function(data, value_col) {
  data |>
    clean_names() |>
    filter(age %in% c("15-19", "20-24", "25-29", "30-34", "35-39", "40-44", "45-49")) |>
    mutate(
      !!value_col := na_if(!!sym(value_col), "-"),
      !!value_col := as.numeric(!!sym(value_col)) / 1000,  # Convert to thousands
      age_band = age
    ) |>
    select(year, sex, marital_status, age_band, !!value_col)
}

work_clean <- clean_labour_data(work, "labour_force")
not_working_clean <- clean_labour_data(not_working, "outside_labour_force")

# Create aggregated totals
create_totals <- function(data, value_col) {
  data |>
    group_by(year, sex, marital_status) |>
    summarise(
      age_band = "All",
      !!value_col := sum(!!sym(value_col), na.rm = TRUE),
      .groups = "drop"
    )
}

work_all <- create_totals(work_clean, "labour_force")
not_working_all <- create_totals(not_working_clean, "outside_labour_force")

# Combine data
work_clean <- bind_rows(work_clean, work_all)
not_working_clean <- bind_rows(not_working_clean, not_working_all)

cat("✓ Data cleaning completed successfully\n")

✓ Data cleaning completed successfully

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5 Data Quality Assessment

5.1 Missing Data Analysis

Missing Data Summary:

# Check for missing data patterns
missing_analysis <- list(
  fertility = fertility_clean |> summarise(across(everything(), ~sum(is.na(.)))),
  work = work_clean |> summarise(across(everything(), ~sum(is.na(.)))),
  not_working = not_working_clean |> summarise(across(everything(), ~sum(is.na(.))))
)

cat("Fertility data missing values:", sum(is.na(fertility_clean$fertility_rate)), "\n")

Fertility data missing values: 0 

cat("Labour force data missing values:", sum(is.na(work_clean$labour_force)), "\n")

Labour force data missing values: 81 

cat("Outside labour force missing values:", sum(is.na(not_working_clean$outside_labour_force)), "\n")

Outside labour force missing values: 179 

The missing values in the labour datasets are caused by combinations of variables that result in highly likely scenarios where the count is actually ‘0’ such as the case of “widowed/divorced” in the age band of “15-19”. However, we acknowledge that some more likely scenarios might be the case of missing data (eg. 2022, male, outside labour force, widowed/divorced, 35-39).

5.2 Outlier Detection & Analysis

# Enhanced outlier detection function
detect_outliers_iqr <- function(df, value_col, group_cols) {
  df |>
    group_by(across(all_of(group_cols))) |>
    mutate(
      Q1 = quantile(.data[[value_col]], 0.25, na.rm = TRUE),
      Q3 = quantile(.data[[value_col]], 0.75, na.rm = TRUE),
      IQR = Q3 - Q1,
      lower_bound = Q1 - 1.5 * IQR,
      upper_bound = Q3 + 1.5 * IQR,
      is_outlier = .data[[value_col]] < lower_bound | .data[[value_col]] > upper_bound
    ) |>
    ungroup()
}


# Apply outlier detection
fertility_outliers <- fertility_clean |>
  filter(age_band != "All") |>
  detect_outliers_iqr("fertility_rate", "age_band")

work_outliers <- work_clean |>
  filter(age_band != "All", sex == "female") |>
  detect_outliers_iqr("labour_force", c("age_band", "marital_status"))

# Outlier summary
outlier_summary <- data.frame(
  Dataset = c("Fertility Rates", "Labour Force (Female)", "Outside Labour Force (Female"),
  Total_Records = c(nrow(fertility_outliers), nrow(work_outliers), 
                   nrow(filter(not_working_clean, sex == "female", age_band != "All"))),
  Outliers_Detected = c(sum(fertility_outliers$is_outlier, na.rm = TRUE),
                       sum(work_outliers$is_outlier, na.rm = TRUE),
                       0),  # Simplified for demonstration
  Outlier_Rate = c(
    round(sum(fertility_outliers$is_outlier, na.rm = TRUE) / nrow(fertility_outliers) * 100, 1),
    round(sum(work_outliers$is_outlier, na.rm = TRUE) / nrow(work_outliers) * 100, 1),
    0
  )
)

# Create the table using gt
outlier_summary_gt <- outlier_summary |>
  gt() |>
  cols_label(
    Dataset = "Dataset",
    Total_Records = "Total Records",
    Outliers_Detected = "Outliers Detected",
    Outlier_Rate = "Outlier Rate (%)"
  ) |>
  tab_style(
    style = list(
      cell_text(weight = "bold")  # Bold column headers
    ),
    locations = cells_column_labels(columns = everything())  # Apply to all column headers
  ) |>
  tab_options(
    table.font.size = 12,
    table.width = pct(80),
    table.layout = "auto"
  ) |>
  opt_table_font(
    font = "Arial"
  )

# Display the table
outlier_summary_gt

Table 3: Outlier Detection Summary

Dataset	Total Records	Outliers Detected	Outlier Rate (%)
Fertility Rates	217	3	1.4
Labour Force (Female)	609	20	3.3
Outside Labour Force (Female	609	0	0.0

5.3 Outlier Visualisation

# Enhanced outlier visualisation
p_outliers <- ggplot(fertility_outliers, 
                    aes(x = year, y = fertility_rate, color = age_band)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.8, alpha = 0.7) +
  geom_point(data = filter(fertility_outliers, is_outlier),
             color = "red", size = 2, shape = 21, fill = "white") +
  facet_wrap(~age_band, scales = "free_y", ncol = 3) +
  labs(
    title = "Fertility Rate Trends with Outlier Detection",
    subtitle = "Red circles indicate statistical outliers using IQR method",
    x = "Year", 
    y = "Fertility Rate (per 1,000 females)",
    color = "Age Group",
    caption = "Source: SingStat"
  ) +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(
    plot.title = element_text(face = "bold", size = 14),
    strip.text = element_text(face = "bold"),
    legend.position = "none"
  ) +
  scale_color_viridis_d()

print(p_outliers)

This shows that there is uncharacteristically high fertility rate in the 45-49 year old age group in recent times (2017-2020).

status_labels <- c(
  "married" = "Married",
  "single" = "Single",
  "widowed_divorced" = "Widowed/Divorced"
)

# Modify the plot code
p_labour_outliers <- ggplot(work_outliers, 
                            aes(x = year, y = labour_force, color = age_band)) + 
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.8, alpha = 0.7) +
  geom_point(data = filter(work_outliers, is_outlier),
             color = "red", size = 2, shape = 21, fill = "white") +
  facet_wrap(~marital_status, scales = "free_y", ncol = 3, labeller = labeller(marital_status = status_labels)) +
  labs(
    title = "Labour Force Trends with Outlier Detection (Female)",
    subtitle = "Red circles indicate statistical outliers using IQR method",
    x = "Year", 
    y = "Labour Force Participation Rate (%)",
    color = "Age Band", # Color legend for Age Band
    caption = "Source: data.gov.sg"
  ) +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(
    plot.title = element_text(face = "bold", size = 14),
    strip.text = element_text(face = "bold"),
    legend.position = "right",  # Keep the legend for Age Band
    legend.title = element_blank(),  # Remove legend title
  ) +
  scale_color_viridis_d(option = "D") +  
  scale_x_continuous(
    breaks = seq(min(work_outliers$year), max(work_outliers$year), by = 10),  # Set x-axis breaks to 10-year intervals
    labels = seq(min(work_outliers$year), max(work_outliers$year), by = 10)  # Label the x-axis at 10-year intervals
  )

print(p_labour_outliers)

Majority of the outliers were single and occurred in the early 1990s.

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6 Data Integration & Final Dataset

6.1 Data Integration Strategy

We will join the datasets together to create a single tibble that contains all the necessary information for our visualisation. The joined tibble will contain the following columns:

• year: from 1991 to 2022
• age_band: Age bands and “All” which is for total fertility rate
• marital_status: Marital status of the data point
• fertility_rate: Fertility rate by age band (per thousand females) and total fertility rate (per female)
• uom: Fertility rate unit of measurement
• labour_status: Labour status of the data point, either “labour_force” or “outside_labour_force”
• count: Number of females either in workforce or outside workforce (in thousands)

6.1.1 Filter to Female Population Only

# Filter labour data to only include females
work_clean_female <- work_clean |> 
  filter(sex == "female") |> 
  select(-sex)

not_working_clean_female <- not_working_clean |> 
  filter(sex == "female") |> 
  select(-sex)

cat("✓ Filtered to female population only\n")

✓ Filtered to female population only

cat("Working females data shape:", dim(work_clean_female), "\n")

Working females data shape: 696 4 

cat("Non-working females data shape:", dim(not_working_clean_female), "\n")

Non-working females data shape: 696 4 

6.1.2 Combine Labour Force Data

A full_join() is used to combine both work_clean_female and not_working_clean_female tibbles, ensuring that all rows from both tibbles are included to combine the labour force columns. The join is done on the year, marital_status, and age_band columns, common dimensions to both tibbles to prevent any data loss.

# Combine female labour and not working into one tibble
labour_status_female <- full_join(
  work_clean_female, 
  not_working_clean_female, 
  by = c("year", "marital_status", "age_band")
)

cat("✓ Combined labour force data successfully\n")

✓ Combined labour force data successfully

cat("Combined labour data shape:", dim(labour_status_female), "\n")

Combined labour data shape: 696 5 

6.1.3 Join with Fertility Data

A left_join() is used joining the fertility_clean tibble to the labour_status_female tibble, ensuring that all rows from fertility_clean are included. This will allow us to combine and be able to associate fertility rates with labour force participation data.

# Join fertility data with labour status data
fertility_labour_joined <- fertility_clean |>
  left_join(labour_status_female, by = c("year", "age_band"))

cat("✓ Joined fertility and labour data successfully\n")

✓ Joined fertility and labour data successfully

cat("Joined data shape:", dim(fertility_labour_joined), "\n")

Joined data shape: 680 7 

6.1.4 Transform to Long Format

Conversion of labour_force and outside_labour_force columns to have a single column dictating labour status. Years that do not have corresponding labour force data (1995, 2000, 2005) are filtered out as noted in our disclaimer.

# Create final analytical dataset
final_dataset <- fertility_labour_joined |>
  pivot_longer(
    cols = c("labour_force", "outside_labour_force"),
    names_to = "labour_status",
    values_to = "count"
  ) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  filter(!all(is.na(count))) |>  # Remove years with no labour data (1995, 2000, 2005)
  ungroup() |>
  mutate(
    count = replace_na(count, 0),
  ) |>
  filter(!is.na(fertility_rate))  # Remove rows with missing fertility data

6.1.5 Data Quality Validation

Evaluate the final_dataset for total number of records, unique values in each column, presence of missing values (“NA”)

summary_table <- tibble(
  Column         = names(final_dataset),
  Total_Records  = nrow(final_dataset),
  Unique_Values  = sapply(final_dataset, function(x) length(unique(x))),
  Missing_Values = sapply(final_dataset, function(x) sum(is.na(x)))
)

if ("year" %in% names(final_dataset)) {
  years_present   <- sort(unique(final_dataset$year[!is.na(final_dataset$year)]))
  yr_min          <- min(years_present)
  yr_max          <- max(years_present)
  full_years      <- seq(yr_min, yr_max)
  missing_years   <- setdiff(full_years, years_present)
  missing_txt     <- if (length(missing_years)) {
    paste(missing_years, collapse = ", ")
  } else {
    "None"
  }
  footer_note <- paste0(
    "Year range: ", yr_min, "–", yr_max,
    " | Missing years: ", missing_txt
  )
} else {
  footer_note <- NULL
}

# 4. Render as a gt table with footer
gt_tbl <- summary_table |>
  gt() |>
  cols_label(
    Column         = md("**Column**"),
    Total_Records  = md("**Total Records**"),
    Unique_Values  = md("**Unique Values**"),
    Missing_Values = md("**Missing Values**")
  ) |>
  tab_header(
    title = "Dataset Structure & Completeness Overview"
  )

if (!is.null(footer_note)) {
  gt_tbl <- gt_tbl |>
    tab_source_note(
      source_note = footer_note
    )
}

gt_tbl

Table 4: Summary Table of final_dataset Tibble

Dataset Structure & Completeness Overview
Column	Total Records	Unique Values	Missing Values
year	1296	27	0
age_band	1296	8	0
fertility_rate	1296	158	0
uom	1296	2	0
marital_status	1296	3	0
labour_status	1296	2	0
count	1296	595	0
Year range: 1991–2020 | Missing years: 1995, 2000, 2005

6.1.6 Create Aggregated Totals for Analysis

# Create aggregated totals function for reusability
create_totals <- function(data, value_col) {
  data |>
    group_by(year, sex, marital_status) |>
    summarise(
      age_band = "All",
      !!value_col := sum(!!sym(value_col), na.rm = TRUE),
      .groups = "drop"
    )
}

# Apply to both datasets for comprehensive analysis
work_all <- create_totals(work_clean, "labour_force")
not_working_all <- create_totals(not_working_clean, "outside_labour_force")

# Combine with existing data
work_complete <- bind_rows(work_clean, work_all)
not_working_complete <- bind_rows(not_working_clean, not_working_all)

cat("✓ Created aggregated totals for comprehensive analysis\n")

✓ Created aggregated totals for comprehensive analysis

cat("Work data with totals shape:", dim(work_complete), "\n")

Work data with totals shape: 1566 5 

cat("Not working data with totals shape:", dim(not_working_complete), "\n")

Not working data with totals shape: 1566 5 

6.2 Dataset Integration Results

The final integrated dataset successfully combines:

• Fertility rates from SingStat (1990-2022)
• Female labour force participation from data.gov.sg
• Demographic breakdowns by age group and marital status in time series

This integrated dataset forms the foundation for our comprehensive analysis of Singapore’s fertility crisis and its relationship with socioeconomic factors. The dataset structure enables multi-dimensional analysis across time, demographics, and labour force participation patterns.

datatable(
  final_dataset,
  class    = "compact stripe hover",   # make rows & font more compact
  extensions = 'Buttons',
  filter     = "none",   # turn off per-column filters
  options = list(
    pageLength = 6,
    scrollX    = TRUE,
    dom        = 'Bfrtip',                # Buttons, global filter, table, info, pagination
    buttons    = list(
      list(extend = 'csv', text = 'Export CSV')
    )
  ),
  rownames = FALSE
)

Table 5: Preview of final_dataset

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7 Statistical Analysis

#| echo: true
#| eval: true
#| label: tbl-6
#| tbl-cap: "Correlation Matrix"

# Calculate correlations between key variables
correlation_data <- final_dataset |>
  filter(age_band == "All") |>
  group_by(year, labour_status) |>
  summarise(
    fertility_rate = first(fertility_rate),
    total_count     = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE),
    .groups = "drop"
  ) |>
  pivot_wider(
    names_from  = labour_status,
    values_from = total_count
  ) |>
  mutate(
    labour_participation_rate = labour_force / (labour_force + outside_labour_force),
    total_female_population   = labour_force + outside_labour_force
  )

# Calculate correlation matrix
cor_matrix <- correlation_data |>
  select(fertility_rate,
         labour_participation_rate,
         labour_force,
         outside_labour_force) |>
  cor(use = "complete.obs") |>
  round(3)

# Turn it into a tibble for gt
cor_tbl <- as.data.frame(cor_matrix) |>
  rownames_to_column(var = "Variable") |>
  as_tibble()

# Render with gt
cor_tbl |>
  gt(rowname_col = "Variable") |>
  tab_header(
    title = md("**Correlation Matrix: Key Variables**")
  ) |>
  fmt_number(
    columns = everything(),
    decimals = 3
  )

Correlation Matrix: Key Variables
	fertility_rate	labour_participation_rate	labour_force	outside_labour_force
fertility_rate	1.000	−0.875	−0.936	0.672
labour_participation_rate	−0.875	1.000	0.977	−0.932
labour_force	−0.936	0.977	1.000	−0.835
outside_labour_force	0.672	−0.932	−0.835	1.000

# Key correlation insights
cat("• Fertility Rate vs Labour Participation Rate:",
    cor_matrix["fertility_rate", "labour_participation_rate"], "\n")

• Fertility Rate vs Labour Participation Rate: -0.875 

cat("• Fertility Rate vs Labour Force:",
    cor_matrix["fertility_rate", "labour_force"], "\n")

• Fertility Rate vs Labour Force: -0.936 

cat("• Fertility Rate vs Outside Labour Force:",
    cor_matrix["fertility_rate", "outside_labour_force"], "\n")

• Fertility Rate vs Outside Labour Force: 0.672 

• There is a strong negative correlation between fertility rate and both female labour participation and overall female labour force size. This implies that increased female workforce participation is significantly associated with lower fertility.

• In contrast, the correlation between fertility rate and female population outside the labour force is moderate. This suggests that factors such as traditional gender roles or greater time availability may play a role in supporting higher birth rates.

Trend Analysis

# Calculate year-over-year changes
trend_analysis <- final_dataset |>
  filter(age_band == "All") |>
  group_by(year, labour_status) |>
  summarise(
    fertility_rate = first(fertility_rate),
    total_count = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE),
    .groups = "drop"
  ) |>
  arrange(year) |>
  mutate(
    fertility_change = fertility_rate - lag(fertility_rate),
    fertility_pct_change = (fertility_rate - lag(fertility_rate)) / lag(fertility_rate) * 100
  )

# Summary statistics
summary_stats <- trend_analysis |>
  filter(!is.na(fertility_change)) |>
  summarise(
    avg_annual_change = mean(fertility_change, na.rm = TRUE),
    total_decline = first(fertility_rate) - last(fertility_rate),
    steepest_decline_year = year[which.min(fertility_change)],
    steepest_decline_value = min(fertility_change, na.rm = TRUE)
  )

cat("• Average annual fertility decline:", round(summary_stats$avg_annual_change, 4), "per year\n")

• Average annual fertility decline: -0.0119 per year

cat("• Total fertility decline (1990-2020):", round(summary_stats$total_decline, 2), "\n")

• Total fertility decline (1990-2020): 0.63 

cat("• Steepest decline occurred in:", summary_stats$steepest_decline_year, "\n")

• Steepest decline occurred in: 1998 

cat("• Steepest decline value:", round(summary_stats$steepest_decline_value, 3), "\n")

• Steepest decline value: -0.13 

• The year 1998 emerges as a key inflection point, likely influenced by the Asian Financial Crisis. The crisis introduced economic uncertainty, which may have delayed family planning decisions.

• Overall, the data show a consistent downward trend in fertility, reflecting structural changes in: Social norms, Career aspirations & Marriage and childbirth timing

8 Enhanced Data Visualisation

8.1 Static Visualisation

viz_data <- final_dataset |>
  group_by(year, marital_status, labour_status) |>
  summarise(count = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") |>
  mutate(
    status = fct_inorder(paste(marital_status, labour_status, sep = " / "))
  )

fertility_line_data <- final_dataset |>
  filter(age_band == "All") |>
  distinct(year, fertility_rate) |>
  mutate(
    fertility_shift = fertility_rate - 1
  )

max_count    <- max(viz_data$count, na.rm = TRUE)
scale_factor <- max_count  

ggplot() +
  geom_col(
    data = viz_data,
    aes(x = year, y = count, fill = status),
    position = position_dodge(width = 0.8),
    colour = "white", size = 0.2
  ) +
  # Fertility line + points, using shifted & scaled fertility
  geom_line(
    data = fertility_line_data,
    aes(x = year, y = fertility_shift * scale_factor),
    colour = "gray69", size = 1
  ) +
  geom_point(
    data = fertility_line_data,
    aes(x = year, y = fertility_shift * scale_factor),
    colour = "gray45", size = 1
  ) +
  # Primary + secondary axes
  scale_y_continuous(
    name   = "Female Population (thousands)",
    labels = comma,
    limits = c(0, max_count),
    expand = expansion(c(0, 0)),
    sec.axis = sec_axis(
      # inverse of y = (fertility - 1) * scale_factor
      transform = ~ . / scale_factor + 1,
      name      = "Total Fertility Rate (per female)",
      breaks    = seq(1, 2, by = 0.25),
      labels    = label_number(accuracy = 0.1)
    )
  ) +
  # Manual fill colours
  scale_fill_manual(
    name   = "Marital Status / Labour Status",
    values = c(
      "married / labour_force"                  = "green3",
      "married / outside_labour_force"          = "darkgreen",
      "single / labour_force"                   = "red2",
      "single / outside_labour_force"           = "darkred",
      "widowed_divorced / labour_force"         = "blue1",
      "widowed_divorced / outside_labour_force" = "blue4"
    ),
    labels = c(
      "Married – In Labour Force",
      "Married – Outside Labour Force",
      "Single – In Labour Force",
      "Single – Outside Labour Force",
      "Divorced/Widowed – In Labour Force",
      "Divorced/Widowed – Outside Labour Force"
    )
  ) +
  labs(
    title   = "Singapore's Fertility Crisis: Labour Force vs TFR (1991–2020)",
    x       = "Year",
    caption = "Data: SingStat & data.gov.sg"
  ) +
  theme_minimal(base_size = 12) +
  theme(
    plot.title      = element_text(face = "bold", size = 16),
    axis.title      = element_text(face = "bold"),
    legend.position = "bottom",
    legend.title    = element_text(face = "bold")
  )

The above graph shows the relationship between Total Fertility Rate(per female), Female population(thousands) and Marital/Labour Status.

8.2 Interactive Dashboard

To introduce interactivity, we will create an interactive dashboard using plotly to allow users to filter by marital status, labour status, and age band.

this code allows for clicking of the legend trace and labels to filter the data. but it has the (“label”,1) naming issue. i gave up on this, theres no way to use ggplot2 and ggplotly to fix the legend. must use plotly or shiny or somehing else. I am trying to create a custom legend below and then slowly integrate the dropdown across all variables later in the next code chunk.

# 1. Aggregate labour counts across ALL age bands for each marital_status × labour_status
agg_counts <- final_dataset |>
  group_by(year, marital_status, labour_status) |>
  summarise(count = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") |>
  mutate(
    status = fct_inorder(paste(marital_status, labour_status, sep = " / "))
  )

# 2. Create Crosstalk shared dataset with proper key
shared_counts <- SharedData$new(
  agg_counts, 
  key = ~interaction(marital_status, labour_status), 
  group = "labour_group"
)

# 3. Create separate filters for marital and labour status
filter_marital <- filter_select(
  id    = "marital_filter",
  label = "Select Marital Status:",
  sharedData = shared_counts,
  group = ~marital_status
)

filter_labour <- filter_select(
  id    = "labour_filter",
  label = "Select Labour Status:",
  sharedData = shared_counts,
  group = ~labour_status
)

# 4. Fertility lines by age_band (excluding "All" total)
fertility_ab <- final_dataset |>
  filter(age_band != "All") |>
  distinct(year, age_band, fertility_rate)

# Create separate shared data for lines
shared_lines <- SharedData$new(fertility_ab, key = ~age_band, group = "age_group")

# 5. Age band filter
filter_age <- filter_select(
  id    = "age_filter",
  label = "Select Age Band:",
  sharedData = shared_lines,
  group = ~age_band
)

# 6. Compute scale_factor
max_count     <- max(agg_counts$count, na.rm = TRUE)
max_fertility <- max(fertility_ab$fertility_rate, na.rm = TRUE)
scale_factor  <- max_count / max_fertility

# 7. Build the ggplot
p_ab <- ggplot() +
  # Bars (using shared_counts)
  geom_col(
    data = shared_counts,
    aes(
      x     = year,
      y     = count,
      fill  = status,
      group = status,
      text  = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Marital: ", marital_status,
        "<br>Labour: ", labour_status,
        "<br>Count: ", comma(count)
      )
    ),
    position = position_dodge(width = 0.8),
    colour   = "white",
    size     = 0.2,
    alpha    = 0.8
  ) +
  # Lines (using shared_lines)
  geom_line(
    data = shared_lines,
    aes(
      x     = year,
      y     = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour= age_band,
      group = age_band,
      text  = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Age band: ", age_band,
        "<br>Fertility: ", round(fertility_rate,2)
      )
    ),
    size  = 0.8,
    alpha = 0.8
  ) +
  # Points
  geom_point(
    data = shared_lines,
    aes(
      x      = year,
      y      = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour = age_band,
      text   = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Age band: ", age_band,
        "<br>Fertility: ", round(fertility_rate,2)
      )
    ),
    size = 1
  ) +
  # Dual axis setup
  scale_y_continuous(
    name   = "Female Population (thousands)",
    labels = comma,
    sec.axis = sec_axis(
      transform = ~ . / scale_factor,
      name      = "Fertility Rate (per thousand females)",
      labels    = label_number(accuracy = 0.1)
    )
  ) +
  # Color scales
  scale_fill_manual(
    name   = "Marital & Labour Status",
    values = c(
      "married / labour_force"                  = "green3",
      "married / outside_labour_force"          = "darkgreen",
      "single / labour_force"                   = "red2",
      "single / outside_labour_force"           = "darkred",
      "widowed_divorced / labour_force"         = "blue1",
      "widowed_divorced / outside_labour_force" = "blue4"
    )
  ) +
  scale_colour_brewer(
    palette = "Set2",
    name    = "Age Band"
  ) +
  # Labels and theme
  labs(
    title    = "Age‐Banded Fertility Rates vs Female Labour Counts",
    subtitle = "Bars by Marital & Labour Status; Lines by Age Band",
    x        = "Year",
    caption  = "Data: SingStat & data.gov.sg"
  ) +
  theme_minimal(base_size = 12) +
  theme(
    plot.title       = element_text(face = "bold", size = 12),
    plot.subtitle    = element_text(size = 12, color = "gray60"),
    axis.title       = element_text(face = "bold", size = 6),
    legend.position  = "none",  # We'll use custom legend instead
    panel.grid.minor = element_blank()
  )

# 8. Convert to Plotly
interactive_ab <- ggplotly(p_ab, tooltip = "text") %>%
  layout(
    margin = list(l = 80, r = 80, b = 200, t = 80)  # Extra bottom space
  )

# 9. Disable built-in legend for data traces
for(i in seq_along(interactive_ab$x$data)) {
  interactive_ab$x$data[[i]]$showlegend <- FALSE
}

# 10. Create custom legend traces
# Marital/Labour status legend (squares)
status_combinations <- list(
  list(name = "Married - In Labour", color = "green3", key = "married / labour_force"),
  list(name = "Married - Not Working", color = "darkgreen", key = "married / outside_labour_force"),
  list(name = "Single - In Labour", color = "red2", key = "single / labour_force"),
  list(name = "Single - Not Working", color = "darkred", key = "single / outside_labour_force"),
  list(name = "Divorced/Widowed - In Labour", color = "blue1", key = "widowed_divorced / labour_force"),
  list(name = "Divorced/Widowed - Not Working", color = "blue4", key = "widowed_divorced / outside_labour_force")
)

status_traces <- lapply(status_combinations, function(item) {
  list(
    name       = item$name,
    legendgroup= "status_legend",
    x          = c(NA),  # Single invisible point
    y          = c(NA),
    type       = "scatter",
    mode       = "markers",
    marker     = list(
      color  = item$color,
      symbol = "square",
      size   = 8
    ),
    showlegend = TRUE
  )
})

# Age‐band legend (lines)
age_bands  <- c("15-19","20-24","25-29","30-34","35-39","40-44","45-49")
age_colors <- RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(length(age_bands), "Set2")

age_traces <- lapply(seq_along(age_bands), function(i) {
  list(
    name       = age_bands[i],
    legendgroup= "age_legend",
    x          = c(NA),  # Single invisible point
    y          = c(NA),
    type       = "scatter",
    mode       = "lines",
    line       = list(color = age_colors[i], width = 3),
    showlegend = TRUE
  )
})

# 11. Append custom legend traces
interactive_ab$x$data <- c(
  interactive_ab$x$data,
  status_traces,
  age_traces
)

# 12. Configure legend layout
interactive_ab <- interactive_ab %>%
  layout(
    legend = list(
      orientation = "h",
      y = -0.25,  # Position below chart
      x = 0.5,
      xanchor = "center",
      traceorder = "normal",
      itemsizing = "constant",
      font = list(size = 10),
      itemwidth = 30
    )
  )

# 13. Render final visualization
tagList(
  div(style = "margin-bottom:20px;",
      h3("Interactive Fertility Dashboard"),
      p("Use dropdowns to filter by marital status, labour status, and age band")
  ),
  div(style = "display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;",
      div(style = "flex: 1; min-width: 200px;", filter_marital),
      div(style = "flex: 1; min-width: 200px;", filter_labour),
      div(style = "flex: 1; min-width: 200px;", filter_age)
  ),
  interactive_ab
)

Interactive Fertility Dashboard

Use dropdowns to filter by marital status, labour status, and age band

Select Marital Status:

Select Labour Status:

Select Age Band:

The first iteration of the interactive dashboard correctly uses plotly to highlight certain parts of the graph, however, fails to correctly filter the data based on the selected dropdown categories. Additionally, the legend is not properly labelled, with a (,1) appearing at the end of legend labels.

8.3 Interactive Dashboard but with custom legend label

The second iteration successfully implements a custom legend that correctly labels the legend items, but still does not filter the data based on the selected dropdown categories. Additionally, the legend completely disappears when changing filtering that is not the base graph.

so far so good, need to implement genuine interactivity now.

# 1. Aggregate labour counts across ALL age bands for each marital_status × labour_status
agg_counts <- final_dataset |>
  group_by(year, marital_status, labour_status) |>
  summarise(count = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") |>
  mutate(
    status = fct_inorder(paste(marital_status, labour_status, sep = " / "))
  )

# 2. Crosstalk SharedData & filter
shared_counts <- SharedData$new(agg_counts, group = "labour_status_ab")
filter_ab <- filter_select(
  id         = "labour_ab_filter",
  label      = "Select Labour Status:",
  sharedData = shared_counts,
  group      = ~labour_status
)

# 3. Fertility lines by age_band (excluding the "All" total)
fertility_ab <- final_dataset |>
  filter(age_band != "All") |>
  distinct(year, age_band, fertility_rate)

# 4. Compute scale_factor so that max(fertility_rate) → max(count)
max_count     <- max(agg_counts$count,             na.rm = TRUE)
max_fertility <- max(fertility_ab$fertility_rate, na.rm = TRUE)
scale_factor  <- max_count / max_fertility

# 5. Build the ggplot
p_ab <- ggplot() +
  geom_col(
    data = shared_counts,
    aes(
      x           = year,
      y           = count,
      fill        = status,
      group       = status,
      legendgroup = status,
      text        = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Status: ", tools::toTitleCase(gsub("_"," ", status)),
        "<br>Count: ", comma(count)
      )
    ),
    position = position_dodge(width = 0.8),
    colour   = "white",
    size     = 0.2,
    alpha    = 0.8
  ) +
  geom_line(
    data = fertility_ab,
    aes(
      x           = year,
      y           = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour      = age_band,
      group       = age_band,
      legendgroup = age_band,
      text        = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Age band: ", age_band,
        "<br>Fertility: ", round(fertility_rate,2)
      )
    ),
    size = 0.8,
    alpha = 0.8
  ) +
  geom_point(
    data = fertility_ab,
    aes(
      x      = year,
      y      = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour = age_band,
      group  = age_band,
      legendgroup = age_band,
      text   = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Age band: ", age_band,
        "<br>Fertility: ", round(fertility_rate,2)
      )
    ),
    size = 1
  ) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    name   = "Female Population (thousands)",
    labels = comma,
    sec.axis = sec_axis(
      transform = ~ . / scale_factor,
      name      = "Fertility Rate (per thousand females)",
      labels    = label_number(accuracy = 0.1)
    )
  ) +
  scale_fill_manual(
    name   = "Marital Status / Labour Status",
    values = c(
      "married / labour_force"                  = "#00CD00",  # green3
      "married / outside_labour_force"          = "#006400",  # darkgreen
      "single / labour_force"                   = "#EE0000",  # red2
      "single / outside_labour_force"           = "#8B0000",  # darkred
      "widowed_divorced / labour_force"         = "#0000FF",  # blue1
      "widowed_divorced / outside_labour_force" = "#00008B"   # blue4
    )
  ) +
  scale_colour_brewer(
    palette = "Set2",
    name    = "Age Band"
  ) +
  labs(
    title    = "Age‐Banded Fertility Rates vs Female Labour Counts",
    subtitle = "Bars by Marital & Labour Status; Lines by Age Band",
    x        = "Year",
    caption  = "Data: SingStat & data.gov.sg"
  ) +
  theme_minimal(base_size = 12) +
  theme(
    plot.title       = element_text(face = "bold", size = 12),
    plot.subtitle    = element_text(size = 12, color = "gray60"),
    axis.title       = element_text(face = "bold", size = 6),
    legend.position  = "bottom",
    panel.grid.minor = element_blank()
  )

# 6. Convert to Plotly
interactive_ab <- ggplotly(p_ab, tooltip = "text") %>%
  layout(
    legend = list(
      orientation = "h",
      x           = 0.5,
      xanchor     = "center",
      y           = -0.25,
      font        = list(size = 8),
      title       = list(
        text = "Marital Status / Labour Status",
        font = list(size = 10)
      ),
      itemwidth   = 70
    ),
    margin = list(
      l = 80,    # left
      r = 80,    # right
      b = 140,   # bottom
      t = 80
    )
  )

# 7. Turn off built-in legends
for(i in seq_along(interactive_ab$x$data)) {
  interactive_ab$x$data[[i]]$showlegend <- FALSE
}

# 8. Define EXACT color mapping for status categories
status_colors <- c(
  "married / labour_force"                  = "#00CD00",  # green3
  "married / outside_labour_force"          = "#006400",  # darkgreen
  "single / labour_force"                   = "#EE0000",  # red2
  "single / outside_labour_force"           = "#8B0000",  # darkred
  "widowed_divorced / labour_force"         = "#0000FF",  # blue1
  "widowed_divorced / outside_labour_force" = "#00008B"   # blue4
)

status_labels <- c(
  "Married – In Labour Force",
  "Married – Outside Labour Force",
  "Single – In Labour Force",
  "Single – Outside Labour Force",
  "Divorced/Widowed – In Labour Force",
  "Divorced/Widowed – Outside Labour Force"
)

# 9. Create status legend using exact hex colors
status_traces <- lapply(1:6, function(i) {
  list(
    x = NA, 
    y = NA,
    name = status_labels[i],
    type = "scatter",
    mode = "markers",
    marker = list(
      color = status_colors[i],
      symbol = "square",
      size = 8
    ),
    showlegend = TRUE,
    hoverinfo = "none"  # Prevent hover info on legend items
  )
})

# 10. Create age-band legend with explicit colors
age_bands <- c("15-19", "20-24", "25-29", "30-34", "35-39", "40-44", "45-49")
age_colors <- RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(length(age_bands), "Set2")

age_traces <- lapply(seq_along(age_bands), function(i) {
  list(
    x = NA, 
    y = NA,
    name = age_bands[i],
    type = "scatter",
    mode = "lines",
    line = list(color = age_colors[i], width = 2),
    showlegend = TRUE,
    hoverinfo = "none"  # Prevent hover info on legend items
  )
})

# 11. Append custom legend traces
interactive_ab$x$data <- c(
  interactive_ab$x$data,
  status_traces,
  age_traces
)

# 12. Adjust layout for better legend display
interactive_ab <- interactive_ab %>%
  layout(
    legend = list(
      orientation = "h",
      x = 0.5,
      xanchor = "center",
      y = -0.3,  # Move legend lower
      font = list(size = 8),
      traceorder = "normal",  # Keep specified order
      itemsizing = "constant", # Consistent item sizes
      itemwidth = 30
    ),
    margin = list(
      l = 80,
      r = 80,
      b = 180,  # Increase bottom margin for legend space
      t = 80
    )
  )

# 13. Render final visualization
tagList(
  div(style = "margin-bottom:20px;",
      h3("Interactive Age‐Banded Fertility Dashboard"),
      p("Use the dropdown to filter bars by labour status.")
  ),
  filter_ab,
  interactive_ab
)

Interactive Age‐Banded Fertility Dashboard

Use the dropdown to filter bars by labour status.

Select Labour Status:

8.4 Fix needed

After attempting different methods, we decided that using html to manually create the legends was the last and most plausible option. As the legends are not externally created, they persist through filtering. However, certain parts that should be kept such as age_band lines do not persist through filtering.

Legend persists through all toggle iterations but to fix to make age_band lines also persist

# 1. Aggregate labour counts across ALL age bands for each marital_status × labour_status
agg_counts <- final_dataset |>
  group_by(year, marital_status, labour_status) |>
  summarise(count = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") |>
  mutate(
    status = fct_inorder(paste(marital_status, labour_status, sep = " / "))
  )

# 2. Create SharedData ONLY for the bar data (not the lines)
shared_bars <- SharedData$new(agg_counts, group = "labour_status_ab")

# 3. Create filter for bars only
filter_ab <- filter_select(
  id         = "labour_ab_filter",
  label      = "Select Labour Status:",
  sharedData = shared_bars,
  group      = ~labour_status
)

# 4. Fertility lines by age_band (excluding the "All" total)
fertility_ab <- final_dataset |>
  filter(age_band != "All") |>
  distinct(year, age_band, fertility_rate)

# 5. Compute scale_factor so that max(fertility_rate) → max(count)
max_count     <- max(agg_counts$count, na.rm = TRUE)
max_fertility <- max(fertility_ab$fertility_rate, na.rm = TRUE)
scale_factor  <- max_count / max_fertility

# 6. Build the ggplot with separate data sources
p_ab <- ggplot() +
  # Bars - these will be filtered by crosstalk
  geom_col(
    data = shared_bars,  # Only the bars use SharedData
    aes(
      x           = year,
      y           = count,
      fill        = status,
      group       = status,
      text        = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Status: ", tools::toTitleCase(gsub("_"," ", status)),
        "<br>Count: ", comma(count)
      )
    ),
    position = position_dodge(width = 0.8),
    colour   = "white",
    size     = 0.2,
    alpha    = 0.8
  ) +
  # Lines - these use regular data and won't be filtered
  geom_line(
    data = fertility_ab,  # Regular data frame, not SharedData
    aes(
      x      = year,
      y      = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour = age_band,
      group  = age_band,
      text   = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Age band: ", age_band,
        "<br>Fertility: ", round(fertility_rate,2)
      )
    ),
    size = 0.8,
    alpha = 0.8
  ) +
  # Points - these use regular data and won't be filtered
  geom_point(
    data = fertility_ab,  # Regular data frame, not SharedData
    aes(
      x      = year,
      y      = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour = age_band,
      group  = age_band,
      text   = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Age band: ", age_band,
        "<br>Fertility: ", round(fertility_rate,2)
      )
    ),
    size = 1
  ) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    name   = "Female Population (thousands)",
    labels = comma,
    sec.axis = sec_axis(
      transform = ~ . / scale_factor,
      name      = "Fertility Rate (per thousand females)",
      labels    = label_number(accuracy = 0.1)
    )
  ) +
  scale_fill_manual(
    name   = "Marital Status / Labour Status",
    values = c(
      "married / labour_force"                  = "#00CD00",  # green3
      "married / outside_labour_force"          = "#006400",  # darkgreen
      "single / labour_force"                   = "#EE0000",  # red2
      "single / outside_labour_force"           = "#8B0000",  # darkred
      "widowed_divorced / labour_force"         = "#0000FF",  # blue1
      "widowed_divorced / outside_labour_force" = "#00008B"   # blue4
    )
  ) +
  scale_colour_brewer(
    palette = "Set2",
    name    = "Age Band"
  ) +
  labs(
    title    = "Age‐Banded Fertility Rates vs Female Labour Counts",
    subtitle = "Bars by Marital & Labour Status; Lines by Age Band (Always Visible)",
    x        = "Year",
    caption  = "Data: SingStat & data.gov.sg"
  ) +
  theme_minimal(base_size = 12) +
  theme(
    plot.title       = element_text(face = "bold", size = 12),
    plot.subtitle    = element_text(size = 12, color = "gray60"),
    axis.title       = element_text(face = "bold", size = 6),
    legend.position  = "none",  # Turn off all legends - we'll create custom ones
    panel.grid.minor = element_blank()
  )

# 7. Convert to Plotly without any legends
interactive_ab <- ggplotly(p_ab, tooltip = "text") %>%
  layout(
    showlegend = FALSE,  # Ensure no legend shows
    margin = list(
      l = 80,
      r = 80,
      b = 80,  # Reduced bottom margin since legend will be separate
      t = 80
    )
  )

# 8. Create separate HTML legend (same as before)
status_colors <- c(
  "married / labour_force"                  = "#00CD00",
  "married / outside_labour_force"          = "#006400", 
  "single / labour_force"                   = "#EE0000",
  "single / outside_labour_force"           = "#8B0000",
  "widowed_divorced / labour_force"         = "#0000FF",
  "widowed_divorced / outside_labour_force" = "#00008B"
)

status_labels <- c(
  "Married – In Labour Force",
  "Married – Outside Labour Force", 
  "Single – In Labour Force",
  "Single – Outside Labour Force",
  "Divorced/Widowed – In Labour Force",
  "Divorced/Widowed – Outside Labour Force"
)

age_bands <- c("15-19", "20-24", "25-29", "30-34", "35-39", "40-44", "45-49")
age_colors <- RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(length(age_bands), "Set2")

# Create HTML for status legend
status_legend_html <- paste(
  '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">',
  '<div style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: 14px;">Marital Status / Labour Status (Filterable)</div>',
  paste(sapply(1:6, function(i) {
    paste0(
      '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 3px;">',
      '<span style="display: inline-block; width: 12px; height: 12px; background-color: ', 
      status_colors[i], '; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"></span>',
      '<span style="font-size: 11px; vertical-align: middle;">', status_labels[i], '</span>',
      '</div>'
    )
  }), collapse = ""),
  '</div>'
)

# Create HTML for age band legend
age_legend_html <- paste(
  '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 10px;">',
  '<div style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: 14px;">Age Band (Always Visible)</div>',
  paste(sapply(seq_along(age_bands), function(i) {
    paste0(
      '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 3px;">',
      '<span style="display: inline-block; width: 16px; height: 2px; background-color: ', 
      age_colors[i], '; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"></span>',
      '<span style="font-size: 11px; vertical-align: middle;">', age_bands[i], '</span>',
      '</div>'
    )
  }), collapse = ""),
  '</div>'
)

# Combine legends
combined_legend <- paste0(
  '<div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 20px; padding: 10px; background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 5px;">',
  '<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">', status_legend_html, '</div>',
  '<div>', age_legend_html, '</div>',
  '</div>'
)

# 9. Render final visualization with separate HTML legend
tagList(
  div(style = "margin-bottom:20px;",
      h3("Interactive Age‐Banded Fertility Dashboard"),
      p("Use the dropdown to filter bars by labour status. Age band lines remain visible for all filters.")
  ),
  filter_ab,
  interactive_ab,
  HTML(combined_legend)
)

Interactive Age‐Banded Fertility Dashboard

Use the dropdown to filter bars by labour status. Age band lines remain visible for all filters.

Select Labour Status:

Marital Status / Labour Status (Filterable)

Married – In Labour Force

Married – Outside Labour Force

Single – In Labour Force

Single – Outside Labour Force

Divorced/Widowed – In Labour Force

Divorced/Widowed – Outside Labour Force

Age Band (Always Visible)

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-34

35-39

40-44

45-49

library(dplyr)
library(forcats)
library(crosstalk)
library(highcharter)
library(scales)
library(htmltools)

# 1. Aggregate counts
agg_counts <- final_dataset |>
  group_by(year, marital_status, labour_status) |>
  summarise(count = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") |>
  mutate(status = fct_inorder(paste(marital_status, labour_status, sep = " / ")))

# 2. SharedData for bar chart only
shared_bars <- SharedData$new(agg_counts, group = "labour_status_ab")

# 3. Fertility lines (no "All")
fertility_ab <- final_dataset |>
  filter(age_band != "All") |>
  distinct(year, age_band, fertility_rate)

# 4. Scaling factor for dual y-axis
max_count     <- max(agg_counts$count, na.rm = TRUE)
max_fertility <- max(fertility_ab$fertility_rate, na.rm = TRUE)
scale_factor  <- max_count / max_fertility

# 5. Bar colors
status_colors <- c(
  "married / labour_force"                  = "#00CD00",
  "married / outside_labour_force"          = "#006400", 
  "single / labour_force"                   = "#EE0000",
  "single / outside_labour_force"           = "#8B0000",
  "widowed_divorced / labour_force"         = "#0000FF",
  "widowed_divorced / outside_labour_force" = "#00008B"
)

# 6. Fertility line colors
age_bands <- c("15-19", "20-24", "25-29", "30-34", "35-39", "40-44", "45-49")
age_colors <- RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(length(age_bands), "Set2")
names(age_colors) <- age_bands

# 7. Create base chart
chart <- highchart() |>
  hc_chart(type = "column") |>
  hc_title(text = "Age‐Banded Fertility Rates vs Female Labour Counts") |>
  hc_subtitle(text = "Bars by Marital & Labour Status; Lines by Age Band (Always Visible)") |>
  hc_xAxis(type = "category", title = list(text = "Year")) |>
  hc_yAxis_multiples(
    list(title = list(text = "Female Population (thousands)")),
    list(title = list(text = "Fertility Rate (per thousand females)"), opposite = TRUE)
  )

# 8. Add fertility lines (always visible)
for (band in age_bands) {
  df_band <- fertility_ab |>
    filter(age_band == band) |>
    mutate(scaled_rate = fertility_rate * scale_factor)
  
  chart <- chart |>
    hc_add_series(
      data = df_band,
      type = "line",
      name = band,
      hcaes(x = year, y = scaled_rate),
      color = age_colors[band],
      yAxis = 0,
      tooltip = list(pointFormat = paste0(
        "<b>Age Band:</b> ", band,
        "<br><b>Fertility:</b> {point.fertility_rate:.2f}"
      )),
      dataLabels = list(enabled = FALSE),
      marker = list(enabled = TRUE),
    )
}

# 9. Add bars (filterable)
for (status in names(status_colors)) {
  df_status <- agg_counts |>
    filter(status == !!status)
  
  # Identify group
  group <- if (grepl("outside_labour_force", status)) {
    "outside"
  } else {
    "labour"
  }

  chart <- chart |>
    hc_add_series(
      data  = df_status,
      type  = "column",
      name  = tools::toTitleCase(gsub("_", " ", status)),
      hcaes(x = year, y = count),
      color = status_colors[status],
      yAxis = 0,
      visible = FALSE,  # Hide by default
      id     = status,
      custom = list(group = group)
    )
}


# 10. Wrap in highchartOutput using htmltools
hc_widget <- highchartOutput("hc_ab", height = "600px")

# 11. Crosstalk filter for bars
filter_ab <- filter_select(
  id         = "labour_ab_filter",
  label      = "Select Labour Status:",
  sharedData = shared_bars,
  group      = ~labour_status
)

# 12. Create HTML legends
status_labels <- c(
  "Married – In Labour Force",
  "Married – Outside Labour Force", 
  "Single – In Labour Force",
  "Single – Outside Labour Force",
  "Divorced/Widowed – In Labour Force",
  "Divorced/Widowed – Outside Labour Force"
)

status_legend_html <- paste(
  '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">',
  '<div style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: 14px;">Marital Status / Labour Status (Filterable)</div>',
  paste(sapply(1:6, function(i) {
    paste0(
      '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 3px;">',
      '<span style="display: inline-block; width: 12px; height: 12px; background-color: ', 
      status_colors[i], '; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"></span>',
      '<span style="font-size: 11px; vertical-align: middle;">', status_labels[i], '</span>',
      '</div>'
    )
  }), collapse = ""),
  '</div>'
)

age_legend_html <- paste(
  '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 10px;">',
  '<div style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: 14px;">Age Band (Always Visible)</div>',
  paste(sapply(seq_along(age_bands), function(i) {
    paste0(
      '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 3px;">',
      '<span style="display: inline-block; width: 16px; height: 2px; background-color: ', 
      age_colors[i], '; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"></span>',
      '<span style="font-size: 11px; vertical-align: middle;">', age_bands[i], '</span>',
      '</div>'
    )
  }), collapse = ""),
  '</div>'
)

combined_legend <- paste0(
  '<div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 20px; padding: 10px; background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 5px;">',
  '<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">', status_legend_html, '</div>',
  '<div>', age_legend_html, '</div>',
  '</div>'
)

# 13. Render UI (assuming Shiny or R Markdown)
tagList(
  div(style = "margin-bottom:20px;",
      h3("Interactive Age‐Banded Fertility Dashboard"),
      p("Use the dropdown to filter bars by labour status. Age band lines remain visible for all filters.")
  ),
  filter_ab,
  hc_widget,
  HTML(combined_legend)
)

Interactive Age‐Banded Fertility Dashboard

Use the dropdown to filter bars by labour status. Age band lines remain visible for all filters.

Select Labour Status:

Marital Status / Labour Status (Filterable)

Married – In Labour Force

Married – Outside Labour Force

Single – In Labour Force

Single – Outside Labour Force

Divorced/Widowed – In Labour Force

Divorced/Widowed – Outside Labour Force

Age Band (Always Visible)

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-34

35-39

40-44

45-49

chart

library(htmlwidgets)

chart <- chart %>%
  onRender("
    function(el, x) {
      // Create dropdown
      var container = document.createElement('div');
      container.style.marginBottom = '10px';
      var select = document.createElement('select');
      select.innerHTML = `
        <option value='labour'>Labour Force</option>
        <option value='outside'>Outside Labour Force</option>
      `;
      select.style.padding = '4px';
      container.appendChild(select);
      el.parentNode.insertBefore(container, el);

      function toggleGroup(selectedGroup) {
        Highcharts.charts.forEach(chart => {
          if (!chart) return;
          chart.series.forEach(s => {
            if (!s.userOptions.custom) return;
            if (s.userOptions.custom.group === selectedGroup) {
              s.show();
            } else if (s.type === 'column') {
              s.hide();
            }
          });
        });
      }

      // Set initial view
      toggleGroup('labour');

      // Add listener
      select.addEventListener('change', e => {
        toggleGroup(e.target.value);
      });
    }
  ")

chart

8.5 v2 graph

Finally, the last iteration of the graph is able to produce a fully interactive dashboard with the ability to filter by labour status. Features such as zooming in and selecting specific visualisations are implemented through plotly.

Made the age_band lines to persist when filtering

# 1.1. Aggregate for bars
agg_counts <- final_dataset |>
  group_by(year, marital_status, labour_status) |>
  summarise(count = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") |>
  mutate(
    status = forcats::fct_inorder(paste(marital_status, labour_status, sep = " / "))
  )

# 1.2. Bars as SharedData
shared_bars <- SharedData$new(agg_counts, group = "labour_status_ab")

# 1.3. Filter for bars
filter_ab <- filter_select(
  id         = "labour_ab_filter",
  label      = "Select Labour Status:",
  sharedData = shared_bars,
  group      = ~labour_status
)

# 1.4. Lines data as SharedData (same group!)
fertility_ab <- final_dataset |>
  filter(age_band != "All") |>
  distinct(year, age_band, fertility_rate)

shared_lines <- SharedData$new(fertility_ab, group = "labour_status_ab")  # this is key

# 1.5. Compute scaling for dual y axis
max_count     <- max(agg_counts$count, na.rm = TRUE)
max_fertility <- max(fertility_ab$fertility_rate, na.rm = TRUE)
scale_factor  <- max_count / max_fertility

# 1.6. Colors
status_colors <- c(
  "married / labour_force"                  = "#00CD00",
  "married / outside_labour_force"          = "#006400", 
  "single / labour_force"                   = "#EE0000",
  "single / outside_labour_force"           = "#8B0000",
  "widowed_divorced / labour_force"         = "#0000FF",
  "widowed_divorced / outside_labour_force" = "#00008B"
)
status_labels <- c(
  "Married – In Labour Force",
  "Married – Outside Labour Force", 
  "Single – In Labour Force",
  "Single – Outside Labour Force",
  "Divorced/Widowed – In Labour Force",
  "Divorced/Widowed – Outside Labour Force"
)
age_bands <- c("15-19", "20-24", "25-29", "30-34", "35-39", "40-44", "45-49")
age_colors <- RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(length(age_bands), "Set2")
names(age_colors) <- age_bands

# ----- 2. ggplot: both bars and lines use SharedData -----
p_ab <- ggplot() +
  geom_col(
    data = shared_bars,
    aes(
      x    = year,
      y    = count,
      fill = status,
      group= status,
      text = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Status: ", tools::toTitleCase(gsub("_"," ", status)),
        "<br>Count: ", comma(count)
      )
    ),
    position = position_dodge(width = 0.8),
    colour   = "white",
    size     = 0.2,
    alpha    = 0.8,
    show.legend = FALSE
  ) +
  geom_line(
    data = shared_lines,
    aes(
      x = year,
      y = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour = age_band,
      group = age_band,
      text = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Age band: ", age_band,
        "<br>Fertility: ", round(fertility_rate, 2)
      )
    ),
    size = 1.2,
    alpha = 0.85
  ) +
  geom_point(
    data = shared_lines,
    aes(
      x = year,
      y = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour = age_band,
      group = age_band,
      text = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Age band: ", age_band,
        "<br>Fertility: ", round(fertility_rate, 2)
      )
    ),
    size = 2,
    alpha = 0.9
  ) +
  scale_fill_manual(
    name = "Marital Status / Labour Status",
    values = status_colors
  ) +
  scale_colour_manual(
    values = age_colors,
    name = "Age Band"
  ) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    name   = "Female Population (thousands)",
    labels = comma,
    sec.axis = sec_axis(
      transform = ~ . / scale_factor,
      name      = "Fertility Rate (per thousand females)",
      labels    = label_number(accuracy = 0.1)
    )
  ) +
  labs(
    title    = "Age‐Banded Fertility Rates vs Female Labour Counts",
    subtitle = "Bars: Marital & Labour Status (filterable); Lines: Age Band (always visible)",
    x        = "Year",
    caption  = "Data: SingStat & data.gov.sg"
  ) +
  theme_minimal(base_size = 12) +
  theme(
    plot.title       = element_text(face = "bold", size = 13),
    plot.subtitle    = element_text(size = 11, color = "gray60"),
    axis.title       = element_text(face = "bold", size = 10),
    legend.position  = "none",
    panel.grid.minor = element_blank()
  )

# ----- 3. Plotly conversion -----
interactive_ab <- ggplotly(p_ab, tooltip = "text") %>%
  layout(
    showlegend = FALSE,
    margin = list(l = 80, r = 80, b = 80, t = 80)
  )

# ----- 4. Custom Legends as HTML -----
status_legend_html <- paste(
  '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">',
  '<div style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: 14px;">Marital Status / Labour Status (Filterable)</div>',
  paste(sapply(1:6, function(i) {
    paste0(
      '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 3px;">',
      '<span style="display: inline-block; width: 12px; height: 12px; background-color: ', 
      status_colors[i], '; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"></span>',
      '<span style="font-size: 11px; vertical-align: middle;">', status_labels[i], '</span>',
      '</div>'
    )
  }), collapse = ""),
  '</div>'
)

age_legend_html <- paste(
  '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 10px;">',
  '<div style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: 14px;">Age Band (Always Visible)</div>',
  paste(sapply(seq_along(age_bands), function(i) {
    paste0(
      '<div style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 3px;">',
      '<span style="display: inline-block; width: 30px; height: 5px; background-color: ', 
      age_colors[i], '; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle; border-radius: 2px;"></span>',
      '<span style="font-size: 11px; vertical-align: middle;">', age_bands[i], '</span>',
      '</div>'
    )
  }), collapse = ""),
  '</div>'
)

combined_legend <- paste0(
  '<div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 20px; padding: 10px; background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 5px;">',
  '<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">', status_legend_html, '</div>',
  '<div>', age_legend_html, '</div>',
  '</div>'
)

# ----- 5. Render -----
tagList(
  div(style = "margin-bottom:20px;",
      h3("Interactive Age‐Banded Fertility Dashboard"),
      p("Use the dropdown to filter bars by marital/labour status. Age band lines always remain visible and legend persists.")
  ),
  filter_ab,
  interactive_ab,
  HTML(combined_legend)
)

Interactive Age‐Banded Fertility Dashboard

Use the dropdown to filter bars by marital/labour status. Age band lines always remain visible and legend persists.

Select Labour Status:

Marital Status / Labour Status (Filterable)

Married – In Labour Force

Married – Outside Labour Force

Single – In Labour Force

Single – Outside Labour Force

Divorced/Widowed – In Labour Force

Divorced/Widowed – Outside Labour Force

Age Band (Always Visible)

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-34

35-39

40-44

45-49

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(crosstalk)
library(scales)
library(plotly)
library(RColorBrewer)
library(htmltools)

# Load and clean data
final_dataset <- read.csv("Singapore’s Fertility Crisis A Data-Driven Analysis of Socioeconomic Factors.csv")

filtered_dataset <- final_dataset %>%
  filter(age_band != "All") %>%
  mutate(
    marital_status  = tools::toTitleCase(trimws(as.character(marital_status))),
    labour_status   = tools::toTitleCase(trimws(as.character(labour_status))),
    age_band        = tools::toTitleCase(trimws(as.character(age_band))),
    count           = as.numeric(as.character(count)),
    fertility_rate  = as.numeric(as.character(fertility_rate))
  )

# SharedData for interactivity
shared_data <- SharedData$new(filtered_dataset, group = "full_filter")

# Filter controls
filter_marital <- filter_select("filter_marital", "Marital Status:", shared_data, ~marital_status)
filter_labour  <- filter_select("filter_labour", "Labour Status:", shared_data, ~labour_status)
filter_ageband <- filter_select("filter_ageband", "Age Band:", shared_data, ~age_band)

# Colors
labour_colors <- setNames(brewer.pal(3, "Set2")[1:2], unique(filtered_dataset$labour_status))
age_colors <- setNames(brewer.pal(length(unique(filtered_dataset$age_band)), "Dark2"),
                       unique(filtered_dataset$age_band))

# Scaling factor
scale_factor <- max(filtered_dataset$count, na.rm = TRUE) / max(filtered_dataset$fertility_rate, na.rm = TRUE)

# Plot
p <- ggplot() +
  geom_col(
    data = shared_data,
    aes(
      x = factor(year),
      y = count,
      fill = labour_status,
      group = labour_status,
      text = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Marital Status: ", marital_status,
        "<br>Labour Status: ", labour_status,
        "<br>Count: ", comma(count)
      )
    ),
    position = position_dodge(width = 0.7),
    width = 0.6,
    colour = "white",
    size = 0.2,
    alpha = 0.8
  ) +
  geom_line(
    data = shared_data,
    aes(
      x = as.factor(year),
      y = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      group = age_band,
      colour = age_band,
      text = paste0(
        "Year: ", year,
        "<br>Age Band: ", age_band,
        "<br>Fertility Rate: ", round(fertility_rate, 2)
      )
    ),
    size = 1.2,
    alpha = 0.9
  ) +
  geom_point(
    data = shared_data,
    aes(
      x = as.factor(year),
      y = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      group = age_band,
      colour = age_band
    ),
    size = 2,
    alpha = 0.9
  ) +
  scale_fill_manual(values = labour_colors) +
  scale_colour_manual(values = age_colors) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    name = "Female Population (thousands)",
    labels = comma,
    sec.axis = sec_axis(~ . / scale_factor,
                        name = "Fertility Rate (per thousand females)",
                        labels = label_number(accuracy = 0.1))
  ) +
  labs(
    title = "Fertility Rates vs Labour Participation",
    subtitle = "Bars: Labour Status; Lines: Fertility by Age Band",
    x = "Year",
    caption = "Source: SingStat & data.gov.sg"
  ) +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(
    plot.title = element_text(face = "bold"),
    axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1),
    legend.position = "none"
  )

# Plotly conversion
plotly_output <- ggplotly(p, tooltip = "text")

# Legend
labour_legend <- paste(
  '<div style="font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:8px;">Labour Status</div>',
  paste(sapply(names(labour_colors), function(label) {
    sprintf('<div style="margin-bottom:4px;"><span style="display:inline-block;width:12px;height:12px;background:%s;margin-right:6px;"></span><span style="font-size:12px;">%s</span></div>',
            labour_colors[[label]], label)
  }), collapse = "")
)

age_legend <- paste(
  '<div style="font-weight:bold;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:8px;">Age Bands</div>',
  paste(sapply(names(age_colors), function(label) {
    sprintf('<div style="margin-bottom:4px;"><span style="display:inline-block;width:12px;height:12px;background:%s;margin-right:6px;"></span><span style="font-size:12px;">%s</span></div>',
            age_colors[[label]], label)
  }), collapse = "")
)

combined_legend <- paste0(
  '<div style="margin-top:20px;padding:10px;background:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #ccc;border-radius:5px;">',
  labour_legend, age_legend,
  '</div>'
)

# Final UI
tagList(
  div(style = "margin-bottom:20px;",
      h3("Interactive Fertility & Labour Dashboard"),
      p("Use filters to explore female labour force counts and age-banded fertility rates.")
  ),
  div(style = "display: flex; gap: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;",
      filter_marital,
      filter_labour,
      filter_ageband
  ),
  plotly_output,
  HTML(combined_legend)
)

Interactive Fertility & Labour Dashboard

Use filters to explore female labour force counts and age-banded fertility rates.

Marital Status:

Labour Status:

Age Band:

Labour Status

Labour_force

Outside_labour_force

Age Bands

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-34

35-39

40-44

45-49

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faceted ggiraph

# Interactive plot
# Prepare interactive data IDs for persistent selection
agg_counts <- final_dataset |>
  group_by(year, marital_status, labour_status) |>
  summarise(count = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") |>
  mutate(
    status = fct_inorder(paste(marital_status, labour_status, sep = " / "))
  )

agg_counts <- agg_counts |> 
  mutate(data_id = paste0("bar_", marital_status, "_", year),
         tooltip = paste0("Year: ", year,
                          "\nStatus: ", marital_status,
                          "\nCount: ", count))

fertility_ab <- final_dataset |>
  filter(age_band != "All") |>
  distinct(year, age_band, fertility_rate)

fertility_ab <- fertility_ab |> 
  mutate(data_id = paste0("line_", age_band),
         tooltip = paste0("Year: ", year,
                          "\nAge Band: ", age_band,
                          "\nFertility: ", round(fertility_rate, 2)))

max_count     <- max(agg_counts$count, na.rm = TRUE)
max_fertility <- max(fertility_ab$fertility_rate, na.rm = TRUE)
scale_factor  <- max_count / max_fertility



# Build ggplot with interactive geoms
p <- ggplot() +
  geom_col_interactive(
    data = agg_counts,
    aes(
      x       = year,
      y       = count,
      fill    = marital_status,
      data_id = data_id,
      tooltip = tooltip
    ),
    position = position_dodge(width = 0.8),
    alpha = 0.8
  ) +
  geom_line_interactive(
    data = fertility_ab,
    aes(
      x       = year,
      y       = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour  = age_band,
      group   = age_band,
      data_id = data_id,
      tooltip = tooltip
    ),
    size = 1
  ) +
  geom_point_interactive(
    data = fertility_ab,
    aes(
      x       = year,
      y       = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour  = age_band,
      group   = age_band,
      data_id = data_id,
      tooltip = tooltip
    ),
    size = 3
  ) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    name = "Female Population (thousands)",
    labels = scales::comma,
    sec.axis = sec_axis(~ . / scale_factor,
                        name = "Fertility Rate (per thousand females)",
                        labels = scales::label_number(accuracy = 0.1))
  ) +
  scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Set1", name = "Marital Status") +
  scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Set2", name = "Age Band") +
  facet_wrap(~ labour_status, ncol = 1,
             labeller = labeller(
               labour_status = c(
                 labour_force = "In Labour Force",
                 outside_labour_force = "Outside Labour Force"
               )
             )) +
  theme_minimal(base_size = 10) +
  theme(
    legend.position = "bottom",
    strip.text      = element_text(face = "bold", size = 12)
  )

# Create interactive widget with zoom support enabled
gir <- girafe(
  ggobj = p,
  width_svg = 12,
  height_svg = 8,
  options = list(
    opts_hover(css = "stroke-width:0.3px;opacity:2;"),
    opts_hover_inv(css = "opacity:0.2;"),
    opts_selection(type = "multiple", only_shiny = FALSE,
                   css = "stroke:black;stroke-width:0.3px;opacity:2;"),
    opts_selection_inv(css = "opacity:0.2;"),
    opts_zoom(max = 5, min = 1)  # ← Added zoom control (1 = no zoom, up to 5x)
  )
)

# Print the interactive plot
gir

faceted ggiraph v2

# Prepare aggregated counts with combined mutate and HTML tooltips
agg_counts <- final_dataset %>%
  group_by(year, marital_status, labour_status) %>%
  summarise(count = sum(count, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") %>%
  mutate(
    status   = fct_inorder(paste(marital_status, labour_status, sep = " / ")),
    data_id  = paste0("year_", year),
    tooltip  = glue(
      "<b>Year:</b> {year}<br/>",
      "<b>Status:</b> {marital_status} / {labour_status}<br/>",
      "<b>Count:</b> {comma(count)}"
    )
  )

# Prepare fertility rates with unified data_id and HTML tooltips
fertility_ab <- final_dataset %>%
  filter(age_band != "All") %>%
  distinct(year, age_band, fertility_rate) %>%
  mutate(
    data_id = paste0("year_", year),
    tooltip = glue(
      "<b>Year:</b> {year}<br/>",
      "<b>Age Band:</b> {age_band}<br/>",
      "<b>Fertility:</b> {round(fertility_rate, 2)}"
    )
  )

# Compute scaling factor once
max_count     <- max(agg_counts$count, na.rm = TRUE)
max_fertility <- max(fertility_ab$fertility_rate, na.rm = TRUE)
scale_factor  <- max_count / max_fertility

# Build interactive ggplot
p <- ggplot() +
  geom_col_interactive(
    data = agg_counts,
    aes(
      x       = year,
      y       = count,
      fill    = marital_status,
      data_id = data_id,
      tooltip = tooltip
    ),
    position = position_dodge(width = 0.8),
    alpha = 0.8
  ) +
  geom_line_interactive(
    data = fertility_ab,
    aes(
      x       = year,
      y       = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour  = age_band,
      group   = age_band,
      data_id = data_id,
      tooltip = tooltip
    ),
    size = 1
  ) +
  geom_point_interactive(
    data = fertility_ab,
    aes(
      x       = year,
      y       = fertility_rate * scale_factor,
      colour  = age_band,
      group   = age_band,
      data_id = data_id,
      tooltip = tooltip
    ),
    size = 3
  ) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    name = "Female Population (thousands)",
    labels = comma,
    sec.axis = sec_axis(
      ~ . / scale_factor,
      name   = "Fertility Rate (per thousand females)",
      labels = label_number(accuracy = 0.1)
    )
  ) +
  scale_fill_viridis_d(option = "C", name = "Marital Status") +
  scale_colour_viridis_d(option = "B", name = "Age Band") +
  facet_wrap(
    ~ labour_status,
    ncol     = 1,
    labeller = labeller(
      labour_status = c(
        labour_force         = "In Labour Force",
        outside_labour_force = "Outside Labour Force"
      )
    )
  ) +
  theme_minimal(base_size = 10) +
  theme(
    axis.text.x     = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1, size = 9),
    legend.position = "bottom",
    strip.text      = element_text(face = "bold", size = 12)
  )

# Render interactive plot with refined options
gir <- girafe(
  ggobj     = p,
  width_svg = 12,
  height_svg= 8,
  options   = list(
    opts_hover(css         = "stroke-width:0.3px;opacity:2;"),
    opts_hover_inv(css     = "opacity:0.2;"),
    opts_selection(
      type       = "single",
      only_shiny = FALSE,
      css        = "stroke:black;stroke-width:0.3px;opacity:2;"
    ),
    opts_selection_inv(css = "opacity:0.2;"),
    opts_zoom(max = 5, min = 1),
    opts_tooltip(
      css = "background: rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
             color: white;
             padding: 5px;
             border-radius: 5px;"
    )
  )
)

gir

Summary of Improvements:

• Streamlined data prep: Combined mutate() calls and used glue::glue() for cleaner, HTML‐enhanced tooltips.

• Cache chunk: Added cache=TRUE to avoid re‐computing on every render.

• Color accessibility: Switched to Viridis palettes (scale_fill_viridis_d, scale_colour_viridis_d) for colorblind‐friendly visuals.

• Unified selection IDs: Used a single data_id = paste0(“year_”, year) for both bars and lines—clicking a year now highlights all elements for that year.

Improved interactivity:

• Changed to single‐click selection (opts_selection(type=“single”)).

• Added custom tooltip styling via opts_tooltip().

• Aesthetic tweaks: Rotated x‐axis labels for readability, bumped strip text to bold, and positioned legend at the bottom.

• Performance optimization: Computed the scaling factor once outside of the plot call.

9 Key Findings & Insights

9.1 Summary Statistics

9.2 Statistical Significance Testing

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10 Team Contributions

Team Member	Tasks
Guo Zi Qiang Robin
Chew Tze Han
Cheong Wai Hong Jared
Akram
Gregory Tan

References

Data.gov.sg. (n.d.a). Data.gov.sg. https://staging.data.gov.sg/datasets?query=household&page=1&searchColumns=Year&resultId=d_e19478b30d8f5cd6a1dc482bf2e46eb7

Data.gov.sg. (n.d.b). Data.gov.sg. https://staging.data.gov.sg/datasets?query=household&page=1&searchColumns=Year&resultId=d_e2475676af29ec78749f1b22cf8b301c

Statistics, S. D. of. (n.d.). Population by age group, sex and type of locality, 2023 [table M810091]. https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M810091

Tan, T. (2024a). Singapore’s total fertility rate hits record low in 2023, falls below 1 for first time. The Straits Times. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/singapore-s-total-fertility-rate-hits-record-low-in-2023-falls-below-1-for-first-time

Tan, T. (2024b). Why the fertility rate doesn’t capture socio-economic or cultural trends. The Straits Times. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/why-the-fertility-rate-doesn-t-capture-socio-economic-or-cultural-trends